An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 第 2 巻C. Knight ; J. Cornish, 1843 - 229 ページ |
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418 ページ - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
170 ページ - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
361 ページ - The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
158 ページ - K. however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in .some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.
414 ページ - ... the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of...
172 ページ - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
250 ページ - Though the whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country is, no doubt, ultimately destined for supplying the consumption of its inhabitants, and for procuring a revenue to them, yet when it...
261 ページ - The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient. Circulation comes to be carried on by a new wheel, which it costs less both to erect and to maintain than the old one.
174 ページ - the same properties, if it were unlimited in quan' tity, and uniform in quality, no charge could be ' made for its use, unless where it possessed peculiar ' advantages of situation. It is only, then, because ' land is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in ' quality, and because, in the progress of population, ' land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously ' situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever
181 ページ - ... constituting its peculiar pre-eminence. If air, water, the elasticity of steam, and the pressure of the atmosphere were of various qualities, if they could be appropriated, and each quality existed only in moderate abundance, they, as well as the land, would afford a rent, as the successive qualities were brought into use. With every worse quality employed, the value of the commodities in the manufacture of which they were used would rise, because equal quantities of labour would be less productive....